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"You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub."
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"Old and young disbelieve one another's truths."
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"A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice."
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"The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything."
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"I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system."
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"There's still is a status-quo group at City Hall who likes things done the old way, behind closed doors."
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"Old soldiers never die; they just fade away."
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"Everybody is doing the same old thing."
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"Everyone should live to be 92 years old, have an orgasm and drop dead."
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"Pamphlets on Sabbath writing are in request here I have been applied to for them by several of the old Methodists knowing that I had them to sell before."
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"My father was an American who could cuss in Italian and make an aria out of it. It was wonderful to watch. But then again, he was a Gemini. I believe in that stuff."
Father

"Uncle Junior is a criminal, which makes him a villain, so it makes people want to watch him. My whole life as an actor has been preparing for something like this."
Life

"For TV I don't think I could have gotten a better part than Uncle Junior because of the intimacy of the character based on David Chase's brilliant writing."
Character

"They would wake me up when I was sleeping, and say sing a song for our friends. I had a sweet voice, I had a nice little tenor voice. God knows what I sang, but my whole family would admire me."
Family

"I had to audition for the part of Jnior, and I wanted the role terribly because I knew it was a great character. This guy is a wonderful, funny, mean old guy."
Funny

"The radio was my big influence. Comedy came from the instinctual feel I had for language."
Comedy

"I enjoyed my grandparents very much. My mother and father would always allow me to stay with them."
Mother

"The anger that Uncle Junior has comes from my background. My father was the son of an Italian immigrant, and I've seen the fire of the Italian temperament. It can be explosive sometimes in ways that are both funny and tragic."
Anger

"I went to Brooklyn College and met this beautiful Jewish girl named Merle, with dark hair, exotic looking and brilliant. So we got married and had three children."
Children

"I went on tour in the play H.M.S. Pinafore."
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